Doxey Defense Hit as Nebraska Purchases Cited
In St Louis on May 30 the Doxey murder trial heard testimony from a Columbus Nebraska druggist about purchases of cacodylate of soda linked to Dr Loren B Doxey. The defense argued the Nebraska testimony was hearsay but the judge overruled the objection and allowed the records to stand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Dora Doxey
William J. Erder
Grimm
Columbus
Neb
Loren B. Doxey
Nebraska
Votes for Women honored by Kokomo
Four-starred flags bearing the title Votes for Women will decorate the graves of pioneer suffragists in Kokomo Indiana. The Kokomo Equal Suffrage and Literary Society will attend to the grave decorations. Graved names include Difretta Philips Minnie Trueblood Anna Dobbs Amanda Tapp Emma Dixon Jane Turner Mary Jackson Cooper Fay Miers Margaret Purvis Emma Grimes Jennie Coles Mary Richmond Susan Giles Lucinda Sassaman Vic Macy Isabelle Wilson Sophronia Pollard Abner Boggs Eva H Davis Susan Crowley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kokomo
Ind
Difretta Philips
Minnie Trueblood
Anna Dobbs
Amanda Tapp
Emma Dixon
Jane Turner
Mary Jackson Cooper
Fay Miers
Margaret Purvis
Emma Grimes
Jennie
Child Taken, Mother Seeks Death After Separation
Charles Hanna knocked a bottle of carbolic acid from his sister Bessie Lulu Hanna’s hand on Monday morning, narrowly saving her life as she lay despondent after a court order allowed her to keep the child only three months a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles
Bessie Lulu Hanna
Union Street
Slain in Old Hargis Feud Near Carlisle Kentucky
Hargis King of Nicholas county Kentucky was assassinated Monday near Carlisle. His body was found in the buggy he had been driving after an ambush. Authorities believe feud enemies of the Hargis family committed the murder. Harvest Hands Wanted for Kansas Harvest Season. Kansas needs 20 000 harvest hands this year per Charles Harris director of the state free employment bureau. Harvest starts June 20. Mrs Cleveland Home: Mrs Grover Cleveland and four children return from Europe aboard the George Washington with months of schooling in Luzerne Switzerland and time in France and Italy. Dances at Wonderland Indianapolis: Wonderland dancing pavilion opens for the season with dancing on Monday night and Tue Thu Sat nights. Managers are E J Wuensch and Arthur Egles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Hargis King
Nicholas County
Kentucky
Carlisle
Hargis
Topeka
Kas
Kansas
Charles Harris
State Free Employment Bureau
Cleveland
New York
Grover Cleveland
Europe
George Washington
Lloyd Line
Luzerne
Switzerland
France
Italy
Wonderland
Wonderland Dancing Pavilion
Indianapolis
E. J. Wuensch
Arthur Egles
Byerley Sues Standard Oil Over Patent Claim
Francis X. Byerley of Cleveland files in federal court on Monday claiming Standard Oil of Indiana infringed a patent for an ashport manufacturing process. He seeks injunction against use of the process and damages equal to the company profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis X. Byerley
Cleveland, C
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Byerley
Standard Oil Company
What They Said In the Dentist's Waiting Room
In a humorous exchange a patient fears the grinding pain of dental work while the dentist offers gas. The talk covers rubberdams, rubber, clamps, and full sets of false teeth as the patient jokes through distress.
Probation Plan Cuts Workhouse Inmates In Marion County
Superintendent reports a sharp drop in workhouse inmates since Judge Collins began police court probation on January 1. Monthly totals fell from about 500 to 80, with $1,500 in fines collected without court action. Judge Collins praises reform success, noting eight of 300 treated failed to reform and no fines led to repeat court appearances. Mrs. E P Hopkins praised for aiding wayward girls and securing homes and wholesome influences.
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Indianapolis
Collins
Callns
E. P. Hopkins
Singer Delna Triggers Paris Opera Row
Paris audiences label Marie Delna as Our Delna and blame Metropolitan Opera stars for a demonstration against the singers. The aria press attacks the Metropolitan cast leaders and claims their attitude toward Mme Delna hindered her New York success.
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Paris
Mme
Marie Delna
Delna
Metropolitan Opera Singers
Aria
Metropolitan
New York
Mme. Delna
Mme. Deln
Madriz Forces Driven Back by Yankee Gunners
Madriz troops strike at Bluefields but are repulsed by machine gun fire from American-armed insurgents. Government losses mount as fever and hunger sap Soldiers. Rama under Gen Mena resists Madriz pressure. Consul Moffatt reports Estrada’s forces holding Bluefields with heavy fighting near the city and 200 prisoners found among Lara’s troops.
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Madriz
Bluefields
Army of
Bluefelds
Ilias
Estrada
Rama
Mena
Madri
Washington
Eestrada
State Department
United States
Moffatt
Lara
No Time Like the Old Time Poem by Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes mourns the past with lines on youth friendship love and home. He contrasts April buds spring birds and violets with aged days and the enduring old place and old friends while praising enduring wives and shared memories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Wendell Holmes
You
Ike
Small Boy Killed by Speeding Auto in Brooklyn
New York May 30 Emil Anderson seven was run down and killed instantly on a Brooklyn sidewalk by an automobile owned and driven by Milton Flory a Bangor Maine manufacturer. The boy darted into the street as the car approached and was crushed under the wheels. Flory stopped and surrendered to police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Emil Anderson
Brooklyn
Milton Flory
Bangor
Emil
Mr. Plory
James Collins
Eighty-eighth Street
Lexington Avenue
Young Gould Heir Held as Runaway in Connecticut
Edwin Gould Jr., son of Edwin Gould of Ardsley on the Hudson and grandson of the late Yay Gould, was picked up by police as a runaway in New Britain Connecticut. He fled Pomfret school in Pomfret Center on Friday and arrived tired and hungry. His maternal grandmother Mrs George Schrady is en route to care for him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Britain, Conn
Edwin Gould Jr
Edwin Gould
Ardsley- on-The-Hudson
Yay Gould
Gould
Pomfret School
Pomfret Center
George Schrady
Trinity Church to Demolish Tenements for Light and Space
New York May 30 By next year Trinity Church will own few income yielding tenements after a wholesale clean up. Directors seek demolition of rear tenements to improve light and air for front structures as the policy to clear old housing continues. Over 30 tenements already removed this year with more slated before year end. About 2000000 is set aside for building sturdy mercantile structures on former tenement sites.
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New York
Trinity Church
Trinity Corporation
Corporation
Suggestive Doctor Arrested In Police Grasp
James Elwood alias Victor Pascoe, calling himself a suggestive physician, was arrested after a young woman on Wabash Street accused him of taking $7 for two “treatments” and not returning. He faces loitering charges and possible prosecution for practicing medicine without a license, while a clairvoyant license purportedly carried in his pocket drew scrutiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Elwood
Victor Pascoe
Wabash Street
Elwood
Chinese boycott of American goods urged by Chinese merchants
San Francisco May 30. All leading Chinese trading guilds were notified by cable to boycott American goods unless the United States removes immigration restrictions. The boycott was decided by the League of Justice formed by 500 Chinese merchants in the city. A leader said the move would cause great loss but was seen as the only effective way to secure justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Cal
China
United States
League of Justice
The Golden Medical Discovery Adpromising Health Benefits
An advertisement touts Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a Liver and stomach tonic with over forty years of use. It lists active roots and glycerine preservation, cites authorities, claims to purify blood, cure skin issues and ulcers, and upsells All-Healing Salve and Pleasant Pellets.
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Doctor Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Bartholow
King
Scudder
Coe
Ellingwood
City Record Marriage Licenses Reported
Roy Mcintosh and Florence M Stephens. Charles Lamm and Alwilda Canady. Leonard L. Johnson and Mary B. Sanders. George A. Duffy and Ida Mae Bunnell. Clifford Byers and Sarah E. Bennett. Mouse Geyer and Ora Handy. Amos L. Page and Naomi Banks. George Pullam and Clara Hammen. Charles Roesner and Blanch Kigure. Frank Lyle and Leota Spencer. Edward Shaffer and Minnie Fike. George Daniels and Nellie M. Starr. Martin Finnegan and Clara Schaeffer. Charles Huff and Mary Kelser. Arthur Barber and Bessie Taylor. Fred Swenke and Freda Summerfield. day McElwaine and L. Vancyce. Claude Jessup and E. Wheeler.
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Roy Mcintosh
Florence M Stephens
Charles Lamm
Alwilda Canady
Leonard L. Johnson
Mary B. Sanders
George A. Duffy
Ida Mae Bunnell
Clifford Byers
Sarah E. Bennett
Mouse Geyer
Ora Handy
Amos L. Page
Naomi Banks
George Pullam
Clara Hammen
Charles Roesner
Blanch Kigure
Frank Lyle
Leota Spencer
Edward Shaffer
Minnie Fike
George Daniels
Nellie M. Starr
Martin Finnegan
Clara Schaeffer
Charles Huff
Mary Kelser
Arthur Barber
Bessie Taylor
Fred Swenke
Freda Summerfield
Day McElwaine
Vancyce
Claude Jessup
E. Wheeler
Why is It Thus A Satirical Look at Corsets and Class
A poem from the York American satirizes wealth power and social pretensions. It follows magnate William Grabber who flaunts money yet cannot fit a collar. It contrasts Billy Smith's porter and rent worries with Mrs Rockster’s social pretensions and Bitty Jones the saleslady facing a harsh wage reality.
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Wiliam Grabber
Duc de Montpensier Visits to Hunt in Rockies
Washington report says Duc De Montpensier, brother of the queen of Portugal and cousin of the king of Spain, is in the United States aiming to hunt big game in the Rockies. The noted society man and philosopher denies seeking an American heiress and criticizes American divorce laws as a distressing issue.
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Washington
Duc De_ Montpensier
Portugal
Spain
Rockies
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Woman's Movement
Old Hargis
Glenn Curtiss
Hudson River
Curtiss
Albany
Marion County
Singer
Lad
Father
Young Gould
America
Billy Smith
Grabober
Bill
Bitty Jones
Venus
York American
Duc
Duc DE Montpensier
The
Bell Telephone
Ohio
Illinois
Central Union Telephone Company
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